From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from majordomo by infradead.org with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 139oxj-0002RY-00 for mtd-list@infradead.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2000 14:11:35 +0100 Received: from dns.cygnus.co.uk ([194.130.39.3] helo=pasanda.cygnus.co.uk) by infradead.org with smtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 139oxh-0002RS-00 for mtd@infradead.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2000 14:11:33 +0100 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <00070511345100.24168@frumious.unidec.co.uk> References: <00070511345100.24168@frumious.unidec.co.uk> To: john@frumious.unidec.co.uk Cc: mtd@infradead.org Subject: Re: doc2000 geometry problem? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 14:11:21 +0100 Message-ID: <10462.962802681@cygnus.co.uk> Sender: owner-mtd@infradead.org List-ID: john@frumious.unidec.co.uk said: > The nftldump, erase and nftl_format utils all return an error (-1, > helpful that) on the ioctl(blah,MEMGETINFO,&blah) call, You _are_ using them on the flash device /dev/mtd0 aren't you, not on the nftl device /dev/nftla ? You shouldn't need to do it though - can you not mount the /dev/nftla1 partition? Or reformat it to ext2 with 'mkfs.ext2 /dev/nftla1' ? -- dwmw2 To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe mtd" to majordomo@infradead.org